Houston Tomorrow live tweets Gulf Coast Green

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Steve Hawley, Apr 20, 09.

Houston Tomorrow live tweeted the Gulf Coast Green Symposium on Thursday and Friday and compiled the posts below. We also exhibited at the Gulf Coast Green Expo on Saturday and Sunday, detailing our vision of a sustainable Houston and answering numerous questions from interested individuals. Thanks to everyone who attended the symposium and expo!

We will also display a booth at the Texas Medical Center Earth Day Celebration on Wednesday, April 22 from 11 am to 2 pm.

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Jim Blackburn - We need a public participation process the likes of which we have never seen to address future hurricanes. (11:21 AM Apr 17th)

Jim Blackburn - Industrial waste sites would not have been protected if we had had a direct hit from Hurricane Ike. (11:11 AM Apr 17th)

Jude LeBlanc - the 2 things that kill walkability: large objects (big box retail) and large open spaces. (9:26 AM Apr 17th)

Brian Andrews and Jude LeBlanc - incremental urbanism - to retrofit walking infrastructure to greyfields in Atlanta (9:16 AM Apr 17th)

Doug Farr - “Driving is the new smoking,” over a photo of James Dean smoking. (8:05 AM Apr 17th)

Doug Farr - People in the 70s had a lot of fun in cars; some were conceived in cars. But they drove half as much as we do. (8:03 AM Apr 17th)

Doug Farr - His 2030 Community Campaign’s slogan is “Live more, drive less. (7:57 AM Apr 17th)

Doug Farr - Today’s regulations encourage climate-changing sprawl, and LEED ND is essentially illegal in many cities. (7:56 AM Apr 17th)

Doug Farr - LEED ND communities will be healthier, according the Centers for Disease Control. (7:54 AM Apr 17th)

Doug Farr - It will take 5 years to change all the litebulbs, 10 for the cars, 25 for buildings, 35 for land use. (7:48 AM Apr 17th)

Doug Farr - Parks located within sightlines of a house are the most valued. (7:45 AM Apr 17th)

Doug Farr - You know you have a great sustainable project when you can charge a premium for units facing the sewage system. (7:33 AM Apr 17th)

Doug Farr - Sustainable Urbanism: Walkable transit-served neighborhoods with high performance buildings. (7:20 AM Apr 17th)

Doug Farr - Life expectancy for the avg American could decline by as much as 5 years. (7:14 AM Apr 17th)

John Jacob - That light rail choochoo is probably the best water quality practice we could have. (1:16 PM Apr 16th)

John Jacob - We need to make it easy for some people to live closer together to support the suburban sick zone. (1:15 PM Apr 16th)

John Jacob - We need to bring rigorous assessment to the low-impact development model. (1:09 PM Apr 16th)

John Jacob - We need to build better cities that take up a lot less space. (1:07 PM Apr 16th)

John Jacob - In urbanity is the preservation of the world. (1:04 PM Apr 16th)

Steve Mouzon - Life is that process which creates all things green. (12:59 PM Apr 16th)

Steve Mouzon -That which can reproduce and live sustainably is green; that which is incapable of doing so is not green. (12:57 PM Apr 16th)

John Jacob - Runoff volume per 100 units drops precipitously as density increases. (12:53 PM Apr 16th)

John Jacob - On a watershed level, density is better in terms of runoff. But we regulate at the site level. Wrong story. (12:45 PM Apr 16th)

Christina Corley - Right now, LEED-ND & EarthCraft Communities r illegal n many places cuz of codes like parking requirements (12:40 PM Apr 16th)

John Jacob - When we think about our impact on the environment, we need to think about density first. (12:39 PM Apr 16th)

John Jacob - The best thing we can do for the environment is build better places. (12:37 PM Apr 16th)

John Jacob - Density is the by far the greatest thing we can do to protect the environment. (12:36 PM Apr 16th)

Jeff Taebel - We’re talking about sustainable water quality and mobility with livable centers. (12:31 PM Apr 16th)

Christina Corley, EarthCraft Communities, http://www.southface.org - “You can’t have smart growth with dumb buildings” (12:31 PM Apr 16th)

Jeff Taebel - If we could direct 40% of growth to a variety of livable centers, we could reduce VMT 10% regionwide. (12:24 PM Apr 16th)

Jeff Taebel - Activity intensity seems to be the indicator for predicting transit use vs driving. (12:22 PM Apr 16th)

Jeff Taebel - 36% of work trips to downtown Houston are via transit. (12:20 PM Apr 16th)

Jeff Taebel - Commute distances have stayed relatively stable. It’s the number of non-commute trips that’s grown. (12:19 PM Apr 16th)

Jeff Taebel - The way you get people out of their cars is you put stuff close together (12:15 PM Apr 16th)

Jeff Taebel - The objective needs to be reduce single-occupant trips and vehicle miles traveled (12:15 PM Apr 16th)

Jeff Taebel - Those of you who drove today, really enjoy your trip back, because it’s the best it’s ever going to be. (12:11 PM Apr 16th)

Jeff Taebel - Our latest model run shows we’re on track for 3.5 million more people by 2035. (12:10 PM Apr 16th)

Steve Mouzon “If we can set the stage for living traditions to occur, then we have a chance of reaching sustainability” (11:41 AM Apr 16th)

Steve Mouzon - We cannot achieve sustainability if we don’t share wisdom. (11:16 AM Apr 16th)

Steve Mouzon, http://www.originalgreen.org “location efficiency is 100 times as good as making the vehicles more efficient.” (10:54 AM Apr 16th)

Steve Mouzon “The basic meaning of sustainability is can you keep going in a healthy fashion into an uncertain future” (10:52 AM Apr 16th)

Alex Steffen, WorldChanging.com “We have an opportunity to get rich, to have more fun, and to help others have more fun.” (10:44 AM Apr 16th)

Steve Dumez - designing “green with an eye to affordability” for Brad Pitt’s Make It Right project for NO rebuilding (10:05 AM Apr 16th)

Steve Dumez talking about using concept of traditional New Orleans semi-public spaces (inner courtyards) in modern projects (9:46 AM Apr 16th)

Gulf Coast Green Symposium and Expo 2009 http://tinyurl.com/aq4qf4 (8:06 AM Apr 16th)

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